JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site

Re:JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site by skrebbel on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:05AM (#26475206)

I think the scientific term is "boring, maintainable code that junior overengineers won't touch with a stick"

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Re:JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site by jfrunyon on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:15AM (#26477847)

This is your idea of maintainable? Yikes. Tell me, how many places in the referenced snippet would need to be changed to, say, allow commas to be present in numbers?

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Re:JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site by skrebbel on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:30AM (#26487962)

Yep. All the duplication is local and it's just a few lines.

Duplication is never pretty, but when it's as local as here, it's pretty much harmless. Duplication that's not obviously duplication, that's a problem. This is not that.

To answer your question, in 3 places, a few lines apart from one another.

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Re:JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site by jfrunyon on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:13PM (#26518189)

Now what happens when there are 10 of these blocks? Embedded within or called by 10 other blocks that also have duplication?

Duplication displays exponential growth.

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